This is a speech by Gov. Lamm of Colorado ~15 years ago, which went viral, and is reproduced all over the web. Even Snopes says it is true! This is courtesy of Michelle Malkin's website


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I have a plan to destroy America
by Richard D. Lamm

I have a secret plan to destroy America. If you believe, as many do, that America is too smug, too white bread, too self-satisfied, too rich, let’s destroy America. It is not that hard to do. History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and they all fall, and that “an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.” Here is my plan:

1. We must first make America a bilingual-bicultural country. History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. One scholar, Seymour Martin Lipset, put it this way: “The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension and tragedy. Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with its Basques, Bretons and Corsicans.”

2. I would then invent “multiculturalism” and encourage immigrants to maintain their own culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal: that there are no cultural differences that are important. I would declare it an article of faith that the black and Hispanic dropout rate is only due to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out-of-bounds.

3. We can make the United States a “Hispanic Quebec” without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently, “The apparent success of our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved, not by tolerance, but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentrically, and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together.” I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with a salad bowl metaphor. It is important to insure that we have various cultural sub-groups living in America reinforcing their differences, rather than Americans emphasizing their similarities.

4. Having done all this, I would make our fastest-growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50 percent dropout rate from school.

5. I would then get the big foundations and big business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of victimology. I would get all minorities to think their lack of success was all the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority population.

6. I would establish dual citizenship and promote divided loyalties. I would “celebrate diversity.” “Diversity” is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other–that is, when they are not killing each other. A “diverse,” peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together, and we can take advantage of this myopia.

Look at the ancient Greeks. Dorf’s “World History” tells us: “The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and literature; and they worshiped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic Games in honor of Zeus, and all Greeks venerated the shrine of Apollo at Delphi. A common enemy, Persia, threatened their liberty. Yet, all of these bonds together were not strong enough to overcome two factors … (local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions …)” If we can put the emphasis on the “pluribus,” instead of the “unum,” we can balkanize America as surely as Kosovo.

7. Then I would place all these subjects off-limits–make it taboo to talk about. I would find a word similar to “heretic” in the 16th century that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like “racist”, “xenophobe” halt argument and conversation. Having made America a bilingual-bicultural country, having established multiculturalism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of “victimology,” I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra –“because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good.” I would make every individual immigrant sympatric and ignore the cumulative impact.

8. Lastly, I would censor Victor Davis Hanson’s book “Mexifornia” –this book is dangerous; it exposes my plan to destroy America. So please, please–if you feel that America deserves to be destroyed–please, please–don’t buy this book! This guy is on to my plan.


“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.” –Noam Chomsky, American linguist and U.S. media and foreign policy critic.


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Gov. Lamm

81 years old, hope it ends soon, Treasonous Bastard!

I re read the story it SEEMS like he's advocating this, but perhaps it's like Paul Harvey and saying if I would or wanted to...
Admittedly I didn't see that he does or wants to.
my apologies for misunderstanding.

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Gov. Lamm

81 years old, hope it ends soon, Treasonous Bastard!

Clearly you didn't read his speech.

He wasn't saying that he supports destroying America. He was laying out how it would be done, as a continuation of what was already happening at the time he gave the speech.

Lamm is actually an opponent of open borders, multiculturalism, etc. He's a "Blue Dog" (conservative) Democrat.

Great read. Kinda puts me in mind of Paul Harvey's "If I were the devil."


I had a history teacher who once spoke of how the USSR had a plan to destroy us over time without ever firing a shot, using our social structure. Maybe they succeeded far better than we ever did?

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Originally posted by downtownv:

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Gov. Lamm

81 years old, hope it ends soon, Treasonous Bastard!

Clearly you didn't read his speech.

He wasn't saying that he supports destroying America. He was laying out how it would be done, as a continuation of what was already happening at the time he gave the speech.

Lamm is actually an opponent of open borders, multiculturalism, etc. He's a "Blue Dog" (conservative) Democrat.

...and former governor Lamm is correct.

Link: "I have a plan to destroy America" — by Richard D. Lamm

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Originally posted by downtownv:

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Gov. Lamm

81 years old, hope it ends soon, Treasonous Bastard!

You missed the actual context. Dick Lamm is one of the most thoughtful politicians we've ever had. Please use some introspection and avoid the knee-jerk reaction you just did. And stop calling people names, if you don't know, or are not sure that they deserve the label. We'll only get through this is we think about what we are doing, then act. Look at what is happening in Houston right now as an example.

Someone stole his playbook and is executing his plan to a tee.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Someone stole his playbook and is executing his plan to a tee.

Yeah....George Soros.

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Originally posted by slabsides45:
Great read. Kinda puts me in mind of Paul Harvey's "If I were the devil."


I had a history teacher who once spoke of how the USSR had a plan to destroy us over time without ever firing a shot, using our social structure. Maybe they succeeded far better than we ever did?

I had the same thought.

America is rotting from within,much like Rome did.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Someone stole his playbook and is executing his plan to a tee.

Yeah....George Soros.

Soros and the DNC.

I was going to be impressed with his prognostication but then I see he made this speech in 2004. All that means is that that process has been well on it's way by 2004 and we've seen the progress in the 13 years since.

Also, for 2004, nobody thought to make a video? All that is in youtube are audio clips.

I seem to recall that some wise person once said something to the effect that civilizations last about 200 years and then collapse.

Also recall something about 8(?) stages if civilizations. Start out, grow, grow more, etc etc, until they start to degrade, and then collapse.